I have a 3-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son. As kids are naturally curious, and I'm always curious about new things, this works in my super-nerdiness favor. To enable some of our curious obsessions we get several different National Geographic (@NatGeo) publications. Today we got one of the most recent print editions in the mail.

My daughter was leafing through it while I was assisting my son with his homework, and of course, the ever attention-seeking 3-year-old butts in with a pull-out she's discovered in the magazine and wants to know what the critter pictured on it is.

My son read us the info-card and, as we usually do, I looked up the Slow Loris and find the online version of the story bringing awareness to the plight of the Slow Loris. Are Humans Pushing the Slow Loris to Extinction?

The online version is fun for all of us because it also offers videos that you can't see in print edition. Our really great fun comes with watching the videos, reading the stories, looking at the pictures displayed, and then an image search for more Slow Loris pics.

This image search, as it always does, leads us down a rabbit hole for the next two hours looking at many different pictures, poses, and videos of the Slow Loris.

What makes all of this even more fun is our way of interacting with what we find. What follows is just a very small example of our antics.

Awwww. Look! They're so cute!

Oh my goodness! *THUD*

Cuteness Overload! And soooooo tiny!

That reminds me of you guys.

You guys were so tiny and so adorable when we brought you home.

Even when you first started investigating and exploring new places...

And how you loved to play...

Be Groomed...

Cuddle...

New foods and reactions to exciting flavors... Adorbs!

After you discovered your favorites, I couldn't keep you guys out of the kitchen!

Always thinking you were being sneaky and I didn't notice when you'd snatch a snack...

Showing off...

Those awkward stages where you didn't have control of your body...

Far less fearful than you should have been...

Oh the many nights in the Emergency Room...

The Skinny Lanky Stage....

The Jabba-The-Loris Stage...

The Never-Ending-Curiosity...

And Then IT Happened...

My Oh-So-Sweet Babies...

Sweet, Adorable Babies...

Became Evil Itself!

Something Unnatural Has Taken Over My Children...

Activated In the Blink of An EYE!

Always Showing Your... Rear...

Screams Fill The House...

All The Bickering...

DON'T TOUCH ME!

MAMA!!

SHE'S TOUCHING ME!!!

MAKE HER STOOOOOOP!!!!

Always Plotting Another Devious Plan...

Every Parent's Nightmare and Sorrow...

Where Did My Darling Children Go?

And When Will Their Abductors Return Them Home?

Yes, I did do ALL of the above commentary for my heathens, including so many different voices, dramatic tones, including imitating their bickering and tantrums, and OF COURSE the volume.

Yes, for my children I'm an absolute idiot. And why not? They don't think I'm a dork... YET... They are my #1 Fans. And I love, love, love it when they giggle.

Every moment is a teachable moment, including the gratuitous imitation of their tantrums; often performed in concert to their own. You should see their reactions!!

How do you make learning fun with your kids?